Second hearing. Be sure to check out Joshua Hoe and many others:

https://www.house.mi.gov/SharedVideo/PlayVideoArchive.html?video=JUDI-051320.mp4

Anybody have a link to this second hearing?

Anyone listened? How’d it go?

There’s a good chance the committee members weren’t listening, or at least, not sincerely. The chairman gave the most pathetic “have a good day” to the woman whose family has been devastated by these failed policies. His lack of compassion and the general tide of cruelty toward registrants by society will indict them ultimately in the highest court one day…perhaps sooner than they think.

“The emperor has no clothes on” was the most fitting statement for the proceedings IMO.

Are the committee members even listening and if so, do they have the courage and strength to make changes. Unfortunately, the public is so misinformed and emotional that were a committee member decide to make a radical departure from the norm, they would be crucified in the next election.

It would be nice to see Michigan’s legislature look at the data and either get rid of SORNA or at a minimum, look at the recidivism rates and build a system with a mechanism for removal of single offense registrants after so many years based on initial and ongoing assessments. I just have a hard time seeing it happen.

Interesting Observation: If Ron Book is convicted under his case (19005520MU10A) would that make him more likely to commit a sex offense than us? The presentation seemed to imply that.

Be sure not to miss the testimony of Christian Burgess, the most powerful three minutes in the entire session.

All of them were good, of course. And courageous. Jill Levenson reminded us what a rock star she is. ACLU’s Miriam Aukerman pointed out that the draft bill was an incremental fix that will land them right back in court. Overall, I didn’t see anyone speak in FAVOR of the revised bill, other than the author of that bill. And everyone, even the state police, were ready to do away with “school safety zones” (?) once and for all.

This link is much more helpful.

https://www.house.mi.gov/SharedVideo/PlayVideoArchive.html?video=JUDI-050620.mp4

Try this. It is just before they are to start on the bill of our interest. It did not work for me from the link either. I just went to their site and since I had watched part of it yesterday I knew where to go.